Pioneer Portraits - September 10, 2015

Ten Years Ago

September 15, 2005

Ben Flathers found his calling in 1942 when he joined the U.S. Army and the Prescott farmer continued his service in the reserves as he blended it with his agricultural pursuits from 1947 through the 1970s. Flathers, 87, moved from his ranch residence to Wheatland Village Retirement Apartments in Walla Walla about a year ago and is being honored as the Waitsburg Historical Society’s 2005 Pioneer of the Year.

Jack and Laurette McCaw were honored as the Waitsburg Booster Club Boosters of the Year in a plaque presentation made during half time of the Waitsburg-Elgin game last Friday. The McCaws have been supporting Cardinal athletics, academics and other extra-curricular activities for decades, helping in ways from coaching to baking for bake sales.

Cub scouts and parents from Pack 332 in Dayton-Waitsburg had a picnic dinner at Camp Nancy Lee, on the South Fork of the Touchet River, near Dayton last Wednesday, September 7 to inaugurate the new Scout season. Cub scouts Tim Ihle, Fred Gritman, Reed Costello, Timmy Wood and Marshall Nechodom and their families attended.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

September 13, 1990

Margaret and Miles Collingwood have been selected by the Waitsburg Historical Society as Pioneers of the Year for 1990. They will be honored at the Pioneer Fall Festival on Sunday, September 16, immediately following the church service. The Collingwoods’ home place, north and west of Waitsburg, contains the original farmstead where Miles was born. He has lived at that location for most of his life.

Waitsburg has proven “a real good place to hang my shingle,” says attorney Vaughn Hubbard. This year marks the 40th year since he came here. Hubbard’s role as a small town attorney has seen him doing the legal jobs like most others before him but he certainly did not stay in those tasks. Hubbard has proven his legal mettle in many places besides Waitsburg and Walla Walla County. That service has taken him to the legislative halls of the state, thence to places hardly dreamed of when he first came here in 1950, fresh out of law school.

Fifty Years Ago

September 9, 1965

The 4-H Dogies under the leadership of Mrs. Fred Harris gained valuable experience and prizes with their exhibits at the S. E. Washington Fair. Jill Zuger exhibited garden produce; Glen Smith, a fat steer; Carol Hinchliffe, feeder steer; and Helen Long, pressed weed collection. Debbie and Howard Smith, Glen Smith and Carol Hinchliffe were the stock judging team.

Boy Scouts of Troop 336 had a last summer fling before school bells ring, with a camping trip on north fork of the Coppei September 3-4. Participating were Charles Baker, Ben Brown, Bill Brown, Doug Brown, Fred Brown, Ralph Brown, Martin Huffman, Alan Huwe, Pat Mohney, Randy Pearson, and Rich Pierson.

Newly-named football coaching staff for Waitsburg Cardinals are, Dick Kinart, Head Coach, Art Jarvis and Larry Hickman, assistant. Dick Kinart takes over the assignment of Geoff Kellman who died on September 1 following hospitalization for pneumonia. Dick played four years of college football in the line at CWSC, two of those years on the same team with former coach Gary Frederick. His high school experience was at Washougal where he played line and fullback.

Sixty Years Ago

Sept. 16, 1955

Robert Webber, Bruce Brunton and Ed Clark received their Eagle rank at a Court of Honor Tuesday evening. Taking ribbons at the Southeastern Washington Fair from the 4-H Garden Club were Judy, Billy and Frances Donley, Judy and Ernie Duckworth, Duane Gusse, Johnny Dodson, Frances Williams, Frances Franklin, Thelma and Clarence Williams, Judy and Lynnette Kruchek, Gary Wheeler and Frank Harvey.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

Sept. 13, 1940

Mr. and Mrs. John Schiltz formerly of this city but now living in Canton, Ohio, accompanied by their granddaughters Mary Elizabeth and Mildred Reigle were guests several days last week to Mr. and Mrs. George Samuels.

The formal opening was made Sunday and Monday of the DeWitt Funeral Home in Walla Walla under the management of Leonard DeWitt.

Mr. and Mrs. Chester Stonecipher formerly of this city are the parents of a 7 ½ pound son, born at Ontario, Or. Sept. 10. The young man has been named William Dean.

One Hundred Years Ago

Sept. 17, 1915

E. H. Leonard has purchased an interest in the Preston-Shaffer Milling Co., operating in this city and in Athena. He expects to move to Waitsburg as soon as the Portland Flouring Mill can arrange to install a manager in his stead.

Frank Billups is lying at the Brining hospital with a badly torn scalp and a broken collar bone sustained Wednesday when a team driven by Alex Mock with a load of peaches from Miss Cora Loundagin’s orchard backed off the approach of the Star bridge and pitched Mr. Billups onto the rocks below and spilled the load of peaches promiscuously.